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1 month ago | 
artsy.net | Alina Cohen
Girlish longing and luxurious surfaces are integral to Sofia Coppola’s films. Their plots are secondary to their atmospheres, which are often decadent and swathed in nostalgia. Marie Antoinette (2006) is best remembered for its ornate, confectionary costuming and scenes of Kirsten Dunst, as the titular queen, bathing and eating cakes.
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2 months ago | 
artsy.net | Alina Cohen
Since the death of David Lynch on January 15th, the internet has been flooded with an outpouring of remembrances for the artist and filmmaker. These confirmed what fans already knew: Lynch was an American original whose quirky characters, distinct visual style, and strong sense of place led viewers to see their own worlds anew.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
artsy.net | Alina Cohen
ArtAlina CohenDavid Cronenberg, still from Videodrome, 1983. Photo by Allstar Picture Library Limited. Image via Alamy. Having a body is weird. You have to feed it and groom it and move it around, all while remembering people’s names and acting appropriately in social situations and trying to forget that, at every second, it’s decaying and readying itself for its final resting place. No wonder filmmakers and visual artists are so inspired by the body’s pleasures and horrors.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
artsy.net | Alina Cohen
ArtAlina CohenBidding for Maurizio Cattelan, Comedian, 2019, at Sotheby’s contemporary evening sale, 2024. Courtesy of Sotheby’s. What a year. In the United States, 2024’s news cycle was dominated by a dramatic and unpredictable presidential election. Around the world, uncertainty prevailed as over 60 other countries held national elections with the power to shift the government in an instant. Amid a deafening barrage of political updates, art news occasionally managed to cut through.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
family.style | Alina Cohen |Ella Quittner |Meka Boyle
A new painting by Sedrick Chisom, titled Medusa Did Not Spread Gangster Rap Lyrics to The Youth of The Southern Cross, but She Did Not Care to Contradict Her Accuser, 2024, places the mythic Gorgon in a setting both antebellum and post-apocalyptic. Medusa’s hair flies into a yellow sky while her feet melt into the earth. Intense, vertical drips define her silhouette against the bright landscape.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
family.style | Alina Cohen |Ella Quittner |Meka Boyle
Honor Levy recently tabulated the ubiquity of certain words in her debut book, a short story collection titled My First Book. Her characters are in their teens or early 20s. They do lines of Vyvanse off an iPad, and fall in love on the Internet. While they worry about the degradation of the oceans and the evils of capitalism, they’re also deeply concerned with discovering who they are and what others—especially young men—might think.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
artsy.net | Alina Cohen
When Los Angeles–based artist Kira Maria Shewfelt began painting kisses, she encountered a problem: On canvas, these passionate images appeared violent. The figures seemed to suffocate each other. The artist reconfigured her renderings so they’d work in the symbolic, romantic register she sought. In one of her oil paintings, Lohengrin Supernova (2023–24), the figures’ lips barely brush. Yet their blushing cheeks and Shewfelt’s decorative confetti flourishes suggest tenderness and love.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Alina Cohen
The French artist Pierre Huyghe embraces site-specific work to explore the boundaries between humanity, nature and the synthetic. Over the past decade, Huyghe has created outdoor sculptures that included active bee colonies and “scanned” a Norwegian forest to generate an ongoing, cinematic narrative about a real place. Huyghe planted a garden with hallucinogenic and carnivorous plants and transformed a skating rink into a watery, earthen environment.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Alina Cohen
In 2018, New Mexico-based artist Cannupa Hanska Luger set up Future Ancestral Technologies, an ongoing, multidisciplinary project that dreams up possibilities for Indigenous futures. A 2023 installment, Watheca—a Lakota word meaning “leftovers”—created mythic scavengers to populate Luger’s imagined universe. This autumn, the artist’s work will appear across three PST Art exhibitions. Luger will present a new installation for Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice at the Hammer Museum.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
artsy.net | Alina Cohen
Throughout the paintings in “Lonely Crowd,” Yoora Lee’s solo exhibition at Half Gallery in Los Angeles this summer, a dreamy haze fell across lithe figures and familiar settings. The artist captured the window bar of a beach café, adorned with drinking glasses and bare limbs. Subway straphangers appeared in a row, their faces obscured by metal bars and jutting arms. A bride and groom are turned away from their wedding guests as the bride’s veil glistened with light.
